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1. simhoifTift, sonnmed from Us central island, embraces all the neigh- 

 bouring islets, the large island ofBuru, and the western portion of Ceram. 

 It is out' of the oldest Dutch settlements in the East. 



S> Jfrfnda, includes the western half of Coram, the ft&uda group proper, 

 the K*S and Am groups, Timor Luut, and the Serwali Archipelago, between 

 that island and Timor. 



8. Ttrnnt*, comprises .Ttblo, with all the adjacent islamist; n part of 

 Cottbes bordering on the Gulf of Tom mi, with all the intervening island* ; 

 Miiwl, Xut'L^ati, \Vaij iu „ and the western section of Kew CSuinea as far an 

 MY E. longitude. 



IIL AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, 



THE LESSER — TIMOR — TtifOR L-AVT — NEW GUINEA, 



Oaneml Surrey. — This division falls naturally into two groups 

 — a volcanic and a non-volcanic — tbc former washed by deep waters, 

 and comprising all the Lesser Sundae with Timor ; the latter com- 

 prising New Guinea, with Salawati, Waijiu,, Misoil, Am, with Timor 

 La ul, and washed by shallow waters. E tcaptioiii to th h Jwmmeirical 

 disposition are, in the first division, the Sumba group, which yppeav 

 to be uon- volcanic ; and in. the second, Timor Lant, which lies beyond 

 the lOO fftthom liiift,, and consequently in deep water For reasons 

 already staled, Bali is here .separated altogether from, tire Leaser 

 Snndas, and treated in the Asiatic division, as in every respect 

 forming a geographical dependency of Java, 



Of thn two groups the non-volcanic belong beyond all doubt pbvsically 

 to the Australian mainland, from which it bceaiiib detached at probably a 

 mit vt-ry ri-uu>U' pprind. Cm nther h:unl. t he vole-mic ^n>u[« is ...n 

 nected with Australia, not physically so much as in its animal and 

 v.get;d'l>- form*. !t U ajipuri-nlly «f rceetkt f ►nit-ilion, iijili<M^>.-d liiniii^h 

 igneous agency after the subsidence of Lamina, of whieh Sumba, Timor, 

 and Timor Laut may, liko Celebes, 1* possibly surviving fragments. 

 Hence, in a strictly scientific grouping, thc&s somewhat abnormal islands 

 should perhaps be treated in our Oceanic division, although moru con- 

 veniently reserved for this place. 



The two groups lie altogether a<mlh of the equator, the volcanic mainly 

 north of the 10th parallel, the non-voWnc occupying tha whole spues 

 between the equator and the same pnndlul. They ptivlcb. for over 3000 

 miles west and east across 45 decree* of longitude (106 — 151° £.), and 

 have a collective area of some 365,000 sqmuo miles. But this space is 

 very uiietjually distributed, over seven -eighths being comprised in tha 

 lion- vol cade, and Jess than one-eighth in the Volcanic group* 



